[The Stage is on Fire] is a page-turner in which, much like life, there are no easy answers and yet each step of the journey yields insight and hope. This work of heart must not be missed!
Melanie Faith
Creative Writing Teacher, Essayist & Poet.
Katie Steedly’s first-person piece [The Unspeakable Gift] is a riveting retelling of her participation in a National Institutes of Health study that aided her quest to come to grips with her life of living with a rare genetic disorder. Her writing is superb.
The Society of Professional Journalists
In recognition of receiving the Dateline Award for the Washingtonian Magazine essay, The Unspeakable Gift.
I thank you … It is the authenticity of your “class notes”; and it is the delicacy and skill with which you present the nuances of classroom life and the actuality of your students’ and fellow teachers’ lives.
Maxine Greene
Philosopher and Education Scholar
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Category: Books Falling
Books Falling
Goodbye to All That
How many miles to Babylon?/ Three score miles and ten-/ Can I get there by candlelight?/ Yes, and back again- If your feet are nimble and light/ You can get there by candlelight.English Nursery Rhyme In her essay "Goodbye to All That," Joan Didion...
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Books Falling, Course Work
Seeing
"It is a dire poverty indeed when a man is so malnourished and fatigued that he won't stoop to pick up a penny. But if you cultivate a healthy poverty in simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fa...
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Books Falling
Write Like A MF
"if your Nerve, deny you-go above your Nerve."Emily Dickinson I am continuing to read tiny beautiful things: Advice on love and life from Dear Sugar, by Cheryl Strayed. In her letter, Elissa Bassist - a 28 year old writer who battles the demons of...
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Books Falling
Intimacy with Fear
Fear is the natural reaction to moving closer to the truthPema Chodron Pema Chodron begins When Things Fall Apart, Heart Advice For Difficult Times with a discussion of fear. She explains that we must get to know fear, "looking it right in the eye...
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From Louisville. Live in Atlanta. Curious by nature. Researcher by education. Writer by practice. Grateful heart by desire.
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The Stage Is On Fire, a memoir about hope and change, reasons for voyaging, and dreams burning down can be purchased on Amazon.
